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A View from the Coast
My first memory of Imperial Beach is of bodysurfing small, low tide waves at the south end of First Street (now Seacoast Drive). After I emerged from the water, my younger brother Nicky and I wandered over to the sand dunes that lined the beach south of the Boca Rio apartments. As we ran over the dunes, the sight of the winding channels and mudflats of the Tijuana Estuary stunned us. Whooping with delight we jumped into the inviting waters of the Sloughs.

Bajagua's project is not officially recognized
Consensus must be reached, affirms Mexico's State Secretary of Environment

Pollution threatens beaches and economy
Part 1 of a series examining border pollution and sewage treatment solutions.

WiLDCOAST declares war on border pollution
Billboard Ties Toxic Sewage to Mexican Developer’s Bajagua Project

Why did the ocean water smell on Monday?
For those of you who managed to surf in Imperial Beach on Monday, May 15, most likely all of you (unless you can't smell) smelt the overpowering stench of something in the water

Killing Baja
Five reasons the Baja we know and love will be gone in a decade and what you can do to save it

Menehunes Demand Clean Water Now!
The energy was high for Sunday’s Kids for Clean Water Menehune event in Coronado.

San Diego Union - Letters to the Editor
Wildcoast lines up for clean water and against Bajaguascam

Plume tracker now online
Thanks to the great work of the Scripps Ocean Monitoring Team, we have now the capacity to look at a real-time Tijuana River plume monitoring animation tool, that allows us to determine the location of the plume from the Tijuana River. This is the plume that impacts Imperial Beach and Coronado.

What's In Tijuana's Sewage?
One day last November, enough copper got swept into Tijuana's overwhelmed sewer system to have minted about 7,700 pennies. And that's just what got collected in a city where thousands lack basic sewers.

Imperial Beach closed
Water contact closures for Imperial Beach and Ocean Beach northward moving currents in Imperial Beach / sewage spill

Imperial Beach closed
Reality check on Bajagua: the money this group of Rancho Santa Fe and Tijuana "businessmen" promoting Bajagua spent paying off public officials to support their project we could have used to clean up our beaches. This project is big, bad and corrupt government at its worst.

Spring is here!
Spring is Here! Blossoming Sewage Plumes and Sprouting Beach Closure Signs

Wildcoast to appear on KSWB
Serge Dedina will appear on KSWB 5 "Take Five"

Wildcoast ocean report for March 20th
Water contact closure for Imperial Beach march 20th

TJ's Haste Makes Waste
A plan to boost Tijuana's sewage treatment capacity is raising concerns about whether it might do more harm than good. And this isn't about Bajagua -- a separate controversial plan to treat Tijuana's renegade sewage.

Analysis of recent pollution in IB
Bacterial levels on Feb 28 measured 4 million total coliform and > 240,000 E. Coli MPN/100mL (in the river). A northward hike from Monument Road to the pilot channel (Thomas Bros 1349 H4) on March 1 found water in the channel, but no movement. Evidence of recent large volume flows from Goat Canyon and Smuggler's Gulch to the pilot channel and estuary were observed.

Imperial beach says yes to Trestles
Imperial Beach, March 2. Last night, the City of Imperial Beach City Council voted to send a letter to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Attorney General Bill Locklyer opposing the proposed TCA toll road that would destroy San Onofre State Park and damage Trestles.

Conservation group requests investigation into Bajaqua contract
KPBS SAN DIEGO (2006-03-01) A San Diego conservation group is asking the U.S. Attorney's office to investigate the financial relationship between two former Congressmen, a sitting Congressman and the sewage treatment company Bajagua.

Save Trestles / Update
Join Wildcoast tonight March 1st-6:15-6:30PM for pizza SAVE TRESTLES MINI-RALLY at the Imperial Beach City Hall, 825 Imperial Beach Blvd. Imperial Beach TO voice support for a resolution by the IB Council against the Trestles Toll Road. Bring your boards.